Vocabulary: 繁花
- blue sky
- high building; multistory building; skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4]
- cost; expenditure; expense; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- short of money; hard up
- cannot afford; can't afford buying
- a turn for the better; to pick up; to improve
- next month
- to take a picture
- to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
- 大陆 dà lù: 大陆 da4 lu4: continent; mainland; CL:塊|块[kuai4]大陆 Dà lù: 大陆 Da4 lu4: mainland China (reference to the PRC)
- see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances; to play it by ear; to use one's discretion
- flat; dull; ordinary; nothing special
- to assume full responsibility; to be in full control; to monopolize
- to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- Causeway Bay
- inside and out
- undergarment; underwear; CL:件[jian4]
- size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes); (coll.) propriety
- to begin a lecture; to start on a story
- to seem; to look; to appear
- foreground; vista; (future) prospects; perspective
- to resign
- 应 Yīng: 应 Ying1: surname Ying; Taiwan pr. [Ying4]应 yīng: 应 ying1: to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shall应 yìng: 应 ying4: to answer; to respond; to comply with; to deal or cope with
- light as a feather
- whereabouts; place to settle; reliable source (of funds etc); (of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb; settlement; solution
- alongside; shoulder to shoulder; side by side; abreast
- to soften
- cool breeze; fig. pure and honest
- cheek
- to compress
- convenient; handy; easy; bento (a meal in a partitioned box); lunchbox
- skin; flesh; fig. close physical relationship
- husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
- to suffer from insomnia
- Puxi, the area of Shanghai located west of the Huangpu River 黃浦江|黄浦江[Huang2 pu3 Jiang1], known as the historic urban center of the city
- poison